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From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
Subject: Re: Disktab and Disklabel curiosities. One works, one doesn't!
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On 08-Jun-98 Robert Chalmers wrote:
> Hi,
> still at this,
> 
> 
> c2490a|Compaq C2490A SCSI:\
>       :ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:ns#16:nt#51:nc#5036:sf:\
>       :oa#0:pa#2054688:\
>       :ob#2054688:pb#2054688:\
>       :oc#0:pc#4109376:
> 
> This doesn't work yet. 2 partitions of 2054688 each = 4109376, and disklabel
> returns the error:
> 
>   disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink
> 
> It then exits, without writing any info.

Show the disklabel-command you are trying to run.
Generally it means, that the disk you try to disklabel is already
partitioned/disklabel'ed.
What geometry did you use while partitioning the disk ?
I am using always :se#512:nt#64:ns#32: on SCSI-disks.
"nc" can be easily calculated with this info given.

Malte.

> 
> The curious thing is, that the handmade edited labelling seems to work
> without
> error, using the 4110000 numbers?
> 
> Maybe there is something fundamentally wrong with this section?
> 
> bob
> 
> 
> Malte Lance wrote:
>> 
>> >> > c2490a|Compaq C2490A SCSI:\
>> >> >       :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#51:ns#16:nc#5036:sf:\
>> 
>> As far as i know you don't need/want "sf" with SCSI-disks.
>> 
> 
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E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
Date: 08-Jun-98
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